He's only half-bulemic - he's got the binging part down pat.

Guys like this are probably more common than most think. I know a few middle aged anorexic men.... and women for that matter. I was diagnosed with EDNOS when I was 13, being a guy it's always been a little weird. While I don't starve myself or throw up (stopped doing that stuff while in highschool), I'm still a bit neurotic about controlling my food. Nothing too major, I have rituals about where things go on my plate and I won't let anyone else serve me. For the most part, I'm over the eating disorder thing but still feel the impulse to binge whenever I get stressed.

This man's coming forward may actually help a lot of people and serve to enlighten the public of the fact that eating disorders are not always related to being thin, they are psychological in nature. Sometimes they are related to stress, self control issues, and have even been linked to post traumatic stress disorder.

/rambling as per usual.

"Two Pies" bulimic?

/shocked I tell you
//he's always been a fat lazy loafer

i'm not trying to be a dick but how do you "suffer" from a condition that you voluntarily engage in? just stop doing it.

senator_mendoza: i'm not trying to be a dick but ....

Wow, and without even trying!

senator_mendoza: i'm not trying to be a dick but how do you "suffer" from a condition that you voluntarily engage in? just stop doing it.

Wow. You fail at psychology.

Bulemia != anorexia

when I saw the name I thought it was an April Fool story doing the rounds again

senator_mendoza: i'm not trying to be a dick but how do you "suffer" from a condition that you voluntarily engage in? just stop doing it.

Be happy. Now.

OK, now be depressed. Now. NOW.

Seriously, have you NEVER tried to change a habit, or followed an impulse against your better judgment?

Oops. And that is of course: bulimia != anorexia. Pay no attention to the typos behind the curtain.

Subby fails.

Bulimia does not typically lead to extreme thinness.

The binging on so many calories allows enough calories to be absorbed to keep the person looking healthier, which means bulimia is often harder to notice and diagnose.

Bulimics tend to have lots of other problems that result from the constant purging wreaking havoc on internal systems.

senator_mendoza: i'm not trying to be a dick but how do you "suffer" from a condition that you voluntarily engage in? just stop doing it.

Plenty of people suffer from alcoholism, addiction to nicotine, meth...

Tell your chain-smoking friends to "just stop doing it". I hope they slug you good for me.

This loaf of waste actually thinks he 'someone'. Dude get a grip - no one wants to flegg a pasty Govt. employee let alone talk to one.

Prescott was the token common-man in the New Labour revival. He was the comic relief too.

kuaq: Bulemia != anorexia

Exactly. My mom is quite overweight and she still suffers from Bulimia, and it wreaks havoc with her health as it farks with her immune system and she ends up suffering from pneumonia 5 or 6 times a year.

*tacks on to Zenarche*

Yup and anorexia and bulimia are psychological conditions with medical descriptions. You can be labeled with either and engage in either binge/purge behavior, calorie restriction, over exercising, or any other compensatory behavior.
The label is actually based on how "good" at it you are. If you have disordered food attitudes and behaviors and are a healthy weight, you are bulimic. If you have the same behaviors and attitudes but are underweight (and have barred aunt flo from visiting) you are anorexic. If you don't fall neatly into either it's EDNOS.
/psych 101

Tigerlilylynn: *tacks on to Zenarche*

Yup and anorexia and bulimia are psychological conditions with medical descriptions. You can be labeled with either and engage in either binge/purge behavior, calorie restriction, over exercising, or any other compensatory behavior.
The label is actually based on how "good" at it you are. If you have disordered food attitudes and behaviors and are a healthy weight, you are bulimic. If you have the same behaviors and attitudes but are underweight (and have barred aunt flo from visiting) you are anorexic. If you don't fall neatly into either it's EDNOS.
/psych 101

Came here to say this. Subby is a moran. Bulimia Nervosa, Non-Purging Type
//DSM-IV FTW

senator_mendoza: i'm not trying to be a dick but how do you "suffer" from a condition that you voluntarily engage in? just stop doing it.

I'm a buliemic so I'm gettig a real kick out these replies...

I have to thank you for your valuable insight into this condition. If only I had heard your advice earlier, I could have saved thousands of dollars on therapy. Not to mention avoided the damage to my health, my interpersonal relationships, and my work performance. "Just stop doing it"... why didn't I think of that!

/ More of a "recovered" bulemic
// It sucks that I'll never be able to have a normal relationship with food again

I actually can spell "bulimic"... really!

To be honest, I think he deserves the 'hero' tag for coming out and talking about his problem. Hopefully he will help others.

Angostura: To be honest, I think he deserves the 'hero' tag for coming out and talking about his problem. Hopefully he will help others.

Agreed.

wouldnt mind reading be a good quality to have as PM?

danae00:
I'm a buliemic so I'm gettig a real kick out these replies...

/ More of a "recovered" bulemic
// It sucks that I'll never be able to have a normal relationship with food again

You might. I was bulimic for 15 years, and at some point it just cured itself...after many years of trying to fix my own head. But I was never treated for bulimia itself.

I don't have any kind of "relationship" with food anymore. Sometimes I forget to eat, most of the time I eat whatever is handy and don't think about it a bit. I don't count calories, I don't anticipate porking out on some food, and I don't skip a meal so I can binge later. The worst binging I do is on chocolate, but even that is "I stop when I've had some chocolate." So it is possible to get over eating disorders. but don't ask me how you do it, because I didn't "do" anything.

/I know, it sounds ridiculous that some people can't even do food normally. It is the worst obsession in the world, because you can't STOP eating.
//You can stop drinking, smoking, chewing your fingernails, but you can't remove food from your life.

danae00: senator_mendoza: i'm not trying to be a dick but how do you "suffer" from a condition that you voluntarily engage in? just stop doing it.

I'm a buliemic so I'm gettig a real kick out these replies...

I have to thank you for your valuable insight into this condition. If only I had heard your advice earlier, I could have saved thousands of dollars on therapy. Not to mention avoided the damage to my health, my interpersonal relationships, and my work performance. "Just stop doing it"... why didn't I think of that!

/ More of a "recovered" bulemic
// It sucks that I'll never be able to have a normal relationship with food again

So how come you can't spell it? Did you buy a dictionary but then you threw it away?

cryinoutloud:
You might. I was bulimic for 15 years, and at some point it just cured itself...after many years of trying to fix my own head. But I was never treated for bulimia itself.


I have to say, your post gives me hope.

I know I'm vastly improved from where I was, but I'm like the alcoholic that has been dry for 5 years. It still constantly is on my mind, and I know I have to be on guard or I'm at risk of starting it up again.

It's great to hear that you made such a fantastic recovery!

Quantum Apostrophe: So how come you can't spell it? Did you buy a dictionary but then you threw it away?

So how come you can't see the very next post where danae00 corrects his/herself? Did you forget your reading glasses?

This guy has a history of avarice and fail in equal measure, and he is not known for anything much more than punching a member of the public in the face, screwing his secretary, and generally being an illiterate, yet forcibly pompous asshat.

For those who looked at the videoclip, this concerned and caring Prescott is not the same man we are familiar with. Maybe he has found religion, or perhaps he's publishing his memoirs.

Quantum Apostrophe: danae00: senator_mendoza: i'm not trying to be a dick but how do you "suffer" from a condition that you voluntarily engage in? just stop doing it.

I'm a buliemic so I'm gettig a real kick out these replies...

I have to thank you for your valuable insight into this condition. If only I had heard your advice earlier, I could have saved thousands of dollars on therapy. Not to mention avoided the damage to my health, my interpersonal relationships, and my work performance. "Just stop doing it"... why didn't I think of that!

/ More of a "recovered" bulemic
// It sucks that I'll never be able to have a normal relationship with food again

So how come you can't spell it? Did you buy a dictionary but then you threw it away?

Somehow I bet that sometime in your life you have misspelled or had a typo whilst typing 'asshole'. Certainly doesn't mean you aren't one.

/Just saying

A good friend of mine was bulimic in college. He must have been doing it right, though, because he lost quite a bit of weight.

hey, when you get right down to it, maybe at age 69 he's on to something. Gorging on food and then puking it up might allow you to get the pleasure of eating that (if that's what drives you) gives you happiness. Puking it up permits you more time here on earth, because if you eat all that damn food and then DON'T puke it up, hey, you're gonna die much sooner! Obviously, the guy keeps some stuff down. He's not unhealthy; he just likes eating ALL THE TIME and he wants to keep doin' it! He's the best epicurean ever!!!

People with bulimia aren't always skinny. In fact, a huge amount of them are normal or overweight. Get your facts right, Farkers.

senator_mendozaAugustine:: i'm not trying to be a dick but how do you "suffer" from a condition that you voluntarily engage in? just stop doing it.

The_Pole_Of_Justice AristotleBe happy. Now.

OK, now be depressed. Now. NOW.

Seriously, have you NEVER tried to change a habit, or followed an impulse against your better judgment?

FIFY Both! Good arguments. Unfortunately, Augustine's invention of a "Free Will" is perfectly compatible with the values of friedman-esque free market. You're to blame for not following the value system: Whether it be the one that provides salvation, societal acceptance, or even now as is the case success; you're to blame just as equally as you're to praise. The fatalists have the evidence working in favor of their position: they hold that we have desires that they (and here's the edge) KNOW are conditioned by what we've found in studying empirical psychology, and they know that we don't do anything outside what we desire to do (even spontaneity is founded in desire). So that's my thread summary and that's my position.

senator_mendoza: i'm not trying to be a dick but how do you "suffer" from a condition that you voluntarily engage in? just stop doing it.

Master, the stupidity and willful ignorance is strong in this one.

"At least I got over my drinking problem"




People with eating disorders are just the weak links in evolution!

I suffer from anorexia. Every time I look in the mirror I see a fat bastard.

BEHOLD!!! The form of bulimia very few farkers have!!!

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senator_mendoza: i'm not trying to be a dick but how do you "suffer" from a condition that you voluntarily engage in? just stop doing it.

You do realized that Bob Newhart sketch was just for laughs right?

ComicBookGuy
BEHOLD!!! The form of bulimia very few farkers have!!!

What are you talking about? Most of them are rushing off to the gym in 26 minutes.

Its hard for myself to not want to throw up after a binge session. Sometimes I am sucessful, others not. But it takes a lot to admit you have a problem.

Knew quite a few bulemic girls in college. Most were Asian-American and felt pressure to be teeny-tiny because Asian women are "supposed" to be tiny. Then the trying-to-be skinny aspect disappeared and it just became about control.

But go ahead and continue to make ignorant comments about a heartbreaking disorder.

/geez why can't those dumbass alcoholics just stop drinking!
//why can't those schizophrenics just. . NOT see hallucinations? Geez they just aren't trying hard enough!

So does this guy really have bulimia or not? It's a toss-up.

I don't care how much you bulimics and anorexics whine and biatch about your little "disease". You will get no sympathy from me.

unholycode76
I don't care how much you bulimics and anorexics whine and biatch about your little "disease". You will get no sympathy from me.

Seriously. Every single f*cking thing is a disease now.

unholycode,

Yes, starving kids around the world is awful. But that's neither here nor there when it comes to people with eating disorders. I'm a recovered bulimic...and yes, it is a disease, whether or not you put quotes around the word. Believe me, if I could have just stopped, I would have. Not that you care about my history with the DISEASE, but here it is anyway: I'd struggled with my weight my entire life, but when I got to college, I finally lost what I needed to lose. However, one day I realized that I was missing sweets and other junk food horribly, so I ate some. And once I ate a few, I couldn't stop (almost like I was making up for the months of deprivation). Of course I felt horribly guilty afterwards, so I thought, "Hmm...I'll try purging. But I'm only going to do it once, and never again." Well, it didn't work out that way. I admit that the first time may have been a conscious choice, a bad choice, I know. But after that...it was an addiction. I knew I had a problem, and I got help (because I WANTED to stop. more than anything in the world), but it took three therapists plus group therapy before I was able to beat the damn thing.

Anyway, basically what I'm trying to say is don't be an asshat since you clearly have absolutely no idea what kind of hell eating disorders are.

"I don't want to eat!!!!! Go fark yourself."

-George Carlin

I guess Carlin was wrong when he said bulimia was an all-American disease.

between the two jags and all the shagging I'm surprised he found the time

Other people have said it, but I'll agree...most bullemics are actually overweight. Because you can never purge it all, even if you throw up for hours.

And I'm pleasantly surprised by how many people are coming out to point out how stupid those people who claim that you can just stop an eating disorder are. It's appreciated.

magickitty: unholycode,

Yes, starving kids around the world is awful. But that's neither here nor there when it comes to people with eating disorders. I'm a recovered bulimic...and yes, it is a disease, whether or not you put quotes around the word. Believe me, if I could have just stopped, I would have. Not that you care about my history with the DISEASE, but here it is anyway: I'd struggled with my weight my entire life, but when I got to college, I finally lost what I needed to lose. However, one day I realized that I was missing sweets and other junk food horribly, so I ate some. And once I ate a few, I couldn't stop (almost like I was making up for the months of deprivation). Of course I felt horribly guilty afterwards, so I thought, "Hmm...I'll try purging. But I'm only going to do it once, and never again." Well, it didn't work out that way. I admit that the first time may have been a conscious choice, a bad choice, I know. But after that...it was an addiction. I knew I had a problem, and I got help (because I WANTED to stop. more than anything in the world), but it took three therapists plus group therapy before I was able to beat the damn thing.

Anyway, basically what I'm trying to say is don't be an asshat since you clearly have absolutely no idea what kind of hell eating disorders are.

It sounds to me like your trying to say that eating disorders are psychological disorders. Trying to say that eating disorders are a "disease" is denying the true nature of your own psychosis. The term "disease" is used to broadly in medicine today. When you have an eating disorder you are not afflicted with a condition you have no control over, regardless of what you may claim. Real diseases such as cancer, diabetes, AIDS, FLU, etc. are out of your control and can only be treated to make you better. You may have a chemical inbalance that predisposes you to make compulsive decisions but the manner in which that psychosis manifests itself depends on your own personal insecurities and need for exceptance. If you can cure yourself from a disorder by getting psychological counciling than it is not a disease. If you have to be treated with conventional medicine than you have a disease. I only wish true disease could be cured by changing your perspective. No amount of counciling will cure your cancer.

magickitty: unholycode,

Yes, starving kids around the world is awful. But that's neither here nor there when it comes to people with eating disorders. I'm a recovered bulimic...and yes, it is a disease, whether or not you put quotes around the word. Believe me, if I could have just stopped, I would have. Not that you care about my history with the DISEASE, but here it is anyway: I'd struggled with my weight my entire life, but when I got to college, I finally lost what I needed to lose. However, one day I realized that I was missing sweets and other junk food horribly, so I ate some. And once I ate a few, I couldn't stop (almost like I was making up for the months of deprivation). Of course I felt horribly guilty afterwards, so I thought, "Hmm...I'll try purging. But I'm only going to do it once, and never again." Well, it didn't work out that way. I admit that the first time may have been a conscious choice, a bad choice, I know. But after that...it was an addiction. I knew I had a problem, and I got help (because I WANTED to stop. more than anything in the world), but it took three therapists plus group therapy before I was able to beat the damn thing.

Anyway, basically what I'm trying to say is don't be an asshat since you clearly have absolutely no idea what kind of hell eating disorders are.

Your gonna biatch to me about how you just couldn't stop eating! Oh you poor thing. How awful for you. There's millions of people in this world wouldn't have starved to death if they had 1/10 of the food you threw up into a toilet. I could have cured you and saved you alot of trouble. Take a month out of your self loathing and travel to places where people have nothing, spend some time with them, live how they live, then come back to this f'd up country and you would have realized how few problems you have.